Roxane Battle

Roxane Battle has worked in local television news for more than 20 years and is a former television news anchor and reporter for the Minneapolis NBC-affiliate, KARE-TV, where she received several Emmy nominations and Minnesota press awards. She is married to a minister and consults, writes and produces for her husband's world-wide television broadcast. She covers the various communities within the Twin Cities area.

From the "Electro-Metabograph," which claimed to diagnose and cure any disease — yes, any — to an electrified cap that sold as a cure for baldness, Dr. Jeff Gorman's medical-device collection is a study in turn-of-the-century medical quackery.

Bee Vang approached his co-starring role in the movie "Gran Torino" the same way he prepares for his pre-med exams at the University of Minnesota.
"I studied the script like it was a textbook," the Minnesota native told several hundred people atten

Hang in there. It'll be over soon. One more month or two to go. In the meantime, in a word, this winter has been relentless. You know it's bad when 20 degrees above zero — rather than below — is considered balmy.

After crashing five local parties over the course of three days, my inaugural escapade came to a perfect end last night with a champagne toast in the presence of tuxedoed and gowned self-proclaimed Obama Mavericks.